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BUDDHIST COSMOLOGICAL MAPS -- Priest Zonto (d.1832). A collection of 3 Japanese hanging scrolls comprising: Enfudaizu tsuketari Hiriomiyazu [The Unclean World of the Earth]. Mikawa: [1822].
Woodcut map scroll on native paper, laid on paper and edged with brown silk, (1300 x 560mm). The scroll depicting a western Mercatorial view of the earth centred on India, place names in Chinese, with equator and tropics, surmounted by the Holy Amaterasuomikami Palace, with a Jambu-tree dominating Mount Sumeru, the explanatory text below describing climate, tides, eclipses and rotation of the earth. (Slight wear to roll ends, and part of map surface.)
Sekaidaisohzu [Shape of the Great World]. [Mikawa:] dated Bunsei 4 [1821]. Woodcut cosmological scroll on native paper, laid on paper and edged with brown silk, (1310 x 560mm). The scroll illustrating a circle of wind with circles of water and a terrestrial layer, showing Mount Sumeru surrounded by seven mountain chains in concentric circles, sun and moon on either side of Mount Sumeru, the texts describing the birth and death of the world.
Tenjikuyochizu [Map of India, birthplace of Buddha]. [Mikawa:] Bunsei 11 [1828]. Woodcut map scroll of India based on Hotan's map Nansenbushu Bankoku Shoka no zu, laid on paper and edged with brown silk, (3720 x 570mm). The scroll presenting an accurate map of India, and showing the pilgrimage route of the Chinese Buddhist priest Hsuan-Tsang, Buddhist sanctuaries marked by pagodas, the central northern part of India depicting the legendary lake of Anottata, the source of the Ganges, Oxus Sita and Indus, the map with explanatory text below by Priest Zonto.
A rare set of three map scrolls by Priest Zonto, chief priest of the Buddhist school at the famous Shon-ji temple at Mikawa. These Buddhist images of cosmography were issued to reconcile the late 18th-century assimilation of Ptolemaic and Copernican ideas with Buddhist teachings. Such hanging scrolls were made to hang in temples. The present set is presented in a late 19th-century wooden case. (3)
Woodcut map scroll on native paper, laid on paper and edged with brown silk, (1300 x 560mm). The scroll depicting a western Mercatorial view of the earth centred on India, place names in Chinese, with equator and tropics, surmounted by the Holy Amaterasuomikami Palace, with a Jambu-tree dominating Mount Sumeru, the explanatory text below describing climate, tides, eclipses and rotation of the earth. (Slight wear to roll ends, and part of map surface.)
Sekaidaisohzu [Shape of the Great World]. [Mikawa:] dated Bunsei 4 [1821]. Woodcut cosmological scroll on native paper, laid on paper and edged with brown silk, (1310 x 560mm). The scroll illustrating a circle of wind with circles of water and a terrestrial layer, showing Mount Sumeru surrounded by seven mountain chains in concentric circles, sun and moon on either side of Mount Sumeru, the texts describing the birth and death of the world.
Tenjikuyochizu [Map of India, birthplace of Buddha]. [Mikawa:] Bunsei 11 [1828]. Woodcut map scroll of India based on Hotan's map Nansenbushu Bankoku Shoka no zu, laid on paper and edged with brown silk, (3720 x 570mm). The scroll presenting an accurate map of India, and showing the pilgrimage route of the Chinese Buddhist priest Hsuan-Tsang, Buddhist sanctuaries marked by pagodas, the central northern part of India depicting the legendary lake of Anottata, the source of the Ganges, Oxus Sita and Indus, the map with explanatory text below by Priest Zonto.
A rare set of three map scrolls by Priest Zonto, chief priest of the Buddhist school at the famous Shon-ji temple at Mikawa. These Buddhist images of cosmography were issued to reconcile the late 18th-century assimilation of Ptolemaic and Copernican ideas with Buddhist teachings. Such hanging scrolls were made to hang in temples. The present set is presented in a late 19th-century wooden case. (3)
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